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Estas familias cosechan flores para las almas que vuelven en Día de Muertos

En los campos del estado de Puebla, México, estas familias cosechan las flores que guiarán los caminos de sus antepasados para que vuelvan el Día de los Muertos a celebrar con los vivos.
- Koral Carballo
Meet the families harvesting the flowers that guide souls home on the Day of the Dead

In fields of the central Mexican state of Puebla, these families harvest the flowers that will guide the paths of their ancestors to return on the Day of the Dead to celebrate with the living.
- Koral Carballo
Martin Luther King Jr. paid the bill for Julia Roberts' birth. Here's the backstory

As fans marked Julia Roberts' birthday last week, they also uncovered a connection between her family and that of the civil rights icon. It all started when her parents opened an acting school.
- Rachel Treisman
From the Pacific to the Palouse, writers take on the Northwest's gloomy landscape

Evergreen trees shrouded in a light mist, a cloudy morning with an 8 a.m. sunrise, the churning sea, the rolling hills of the Palouse: landscape takes a central role in the anthology "Evergreen: Grim Tales and Verses from the Gloomy Northwest."
- Hans Anderson
Washington gave Bigfoot wings: the story behind Batsquatch

One of the fun things about Halloween is - it's a day where creepy creatures that we don't usually believe in seem just a little more likely to exist. In other words, Halloween is a great day for cryptids.
- Mike Davis
'Goosebumps' is turning 30 — the scariest part is how old that makes you

R.L. Stine's mega-popular series has spawned TV shows, movies and many, many books. A humor writer who stumbled into horror, Stine says its been a thrill to scare so many generations of kids.
- Andrew Limbong
How Seattle celebrates Día de los Muertos

Today is Halloween, but tomorrow marks the start of the two-day holiday of Día de los Muertos. A Latinx-owned art gallery in White Center has been celebrating all month by displaying work from 40 artists inspired by the holiday. Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery co-founders Jake Prendez and Judy Avitia-Gonzalez are here to talk about Día de los Muertos’ significance, and how the holiday has grown in Seattle.
- Vaughan Jones
My mom passed down her love of horror to me — and a big lesson about courage

It took me years to fully realize why my mother loved her spooky books so much. Those horror stories gave my mother the courage to leave her abuser.
- Nikki Jones
Why do we like horror?

October is the right time for the spooky, from haunted houses to horror movies. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with fear researcher Coltan Scrivner about what makes scary things so appealing.
- Ayesha Rascoe
Director Cameron Crowe on the opening of his musical 'Almost Famous' in New York this week

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to writer and director Cameron Crowe, whose movie, "Almost Famous" is now a musical, and opening in New York next week.
- Scott Simon

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